It looks like Tim Cahill's independent campaign for Governor of Massachusetts is coming apart at the seams. At first, his candidacy looked pretty viable, then he looked like he might be a spoiler, now it looks like he will be a non-factor. Of course, the barrage of negative ads run by the national GOP did real damage.

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is fired after he called Jon Stewart a bigot during a radio interview. My guess is that the suits at CNN were looking for an excuse to get rid of him, and he gave it to them. If he were a valuable contributor, with an otherwise good record, they would not have cut him loose so quickly.

Benny Avni thinks we could see a power struggle erupt in North Korea. The consequences of such a struggle could be quite severe for the region.

Moqtada al Sadr, the Iraqi Shiite leader in the pocket of the mullahs in Iran (and currently living in exile in that country) has thrown his party's support behind Prime Minister Maliki. This will allow Maliki to continue to run Iraq. What, I wonder, was the price for Sadr's (and Iran's) support?